photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Conradi Millieri(Only portion of map is shown because the full map is too large and long) The Tabula Peutingeriana is an extraordinary map depicting the road network of t… See more

The Tabula Peutingeriana is named for 16th-century German antiquarian Konrad Peutinger, who was gifted the map by its discoverer Conrad Celtes following his death. See more

photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Francesco di Antonio del Chierico While every geographer on this list was important, Ptolemy’s contributions (through building on the work from earlier geographers) changed th… See more

photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Edward Bunbury Pomponius Mela is the earliest known Roman geographer; the geographers before him had all been Greek. For the most part, Pomponius Mela agreed wit… See more